02 May 2026
by Silvia Gusmano «Books have their own destiny and their own biography». It is not the first time that Thomas Sparr has attempted the undertaking: already in Todesfuge the German writer and scholar had retraced the “biography” of a text, but there it was the poetry of Paul Celan, while in the volume recently presented to the Italian public it is that of one of the most famous diaries in the world. In I want to continue living even after death (Turin, Einaudi, 2026, 240 pages, 14 euros, translated by Monica Guerra) in fact, Sparr writes the biography of the famous Diary of Anne Frank, retracing her life from 1947 (the year the volume was released) to today. It is the story from genesis to international success, from waste to redemption, from first editions to arbitrary interpretations, from translations to …
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